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The company owned by bi-coastal Internet millionaire Halsey Minor to develop the stalled Landmark hotel on the Downtown Mall declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy Wednesday, September 1, in the federal bankruptcy court in Lynchburg.
Court filings indicate that Minor has directed the Roanoke-based law firm of Woods Rogers to handle the situation.
Minor recently won a $6.6 million victory against developer Lee Danielson in the hotel fiasco, but the two sides are slated to spar again on November 1, court records say, with a three-week trial in Atlanta, where Minor had been sued by Danielson and the project's Georgia-based lender.
The largest unsecured creditor in the bankruptcy of Minor Family Hotels LLC, which is headquartered at Minor's sumptuous Fox Ridge farm in Free Union, appears to be Minor's lawyer, Betty Shumener of the Los Angeles-based firm DLA Piper. A court document shows that Minor's company owes Shumener $3,047,360.
Despite the seven-figure debt, Shumener–- who bills her time at $790 per hour–- appears to have recently begun representing Minor in another matter after his original legal team began bailing out. On July 30, the L.A. firm of Browne Woods George asked the court to let it stop representing Minor after Sotheby's auction house conquered Minor in a $6.64 million judgment.
Sotheby's lawyer was portraying Minor as "unresponsive to prior court orders" and asserted that he has "obstructed" enforcement of the judgment. "It seems," Sotheby's lawyer John Cahill wrote in a motion, "that even Minor's own attorneys have incredible difficulty directly contacting Minor."
Indeed, Minor's lawyer, Eric George, in begging the court to leave his client behind, noted that relations between his firm and Minor have "broken down irreparably" and that communications have been "rendered impossible."
Repeated comment requests to Minor's publicist, Aaron Curtiss, have yielded no result on the lawyer switcheroo. However, in a press release dated Thursday, September 2, Curtiss quotes Minor as pinning blame for the hotel's troubles on others.
"It is unfortunate that our lenders and the FDIC have forced us to take this step," Minor says in the release. "However, the Chapter 11 process provides us with the most expeditious manner in which to resolve the litigation that has effectively shut down the project and put people out of work."
In a filing, Minor tells the bankruptcy court that he invested nearly $7 million into the hotel and asserts that the lender–- the now-failed Specialty Finance Group–- "breached its obligations to fully fund the loan." That breach, Minor alleges, halted construction and launched numerous lawsuits.
Not counting the $3 million claimed by his lawyer, Minor's company owes several hundred thousand dollars including $4,143 for an L.A. court reporter, $8,900 to architect Neil Bhatt, and nearly $15,000 for lawyer Steve Blaine, the only local name on the top-20 creditors list.
Minor is a major Charlottesville-bred success story. Having co-founded technology news firm CNet and several other successful internet companies, he amassed a fortune once estimated at over $350 million, and he once publicly expressed interest in becoming Virginia's governor.
In recent years, however, he has become the target of several creditor lawsuits. He traces his liquidity woes to Merrill Lynch, but–- perhaps bolstered by a victory over Christie's auction house–- he has begun lashing out at other perceived enemies. For instance, in July, he penned a Huffington Post opinion column to scold the FDIC as a threat to American prosperity. That same month he began accusing the Hook of unspecified defamation and warning the editor of an impending lawsuit.
When the Hook last tallied Minor's lawsuits a year ago, he had lost a suit to Merrill Lynch but was still waging a suit and countersuit against the two auction houses, at least two suits and two countersuits against the Landmark developer and its lender, and a case against the City of Hialeah, Florida over its decision to sell its historic horse-racing track. In August, he sued a company called Lithium Technologies for allegedly deceiving his venture capital firm by misrepresenting its value.
Chapter 11 is the form of bankruptcy in which creditors are typically asked to accept pennies on the dollar for the amounts they're owed. Rather than fold the company, Minor asserts in his press release that he's eager to put workers back on the job and finish the hotel. But his former business partner expresses doubt.
"This is just another stall tactic–- a big gamble–- and it may backfire on him," says Danielson, reached in California by telephone. "This is reality TV at its worst. Who would ever want to deal with this guy?"
Regarding the burning question of when construction might resume at the Downtown Mall's 11-story eyesore, the answer depends on such things as the willingness of the creditors to accept less than they're owed, the bankruptcy judge's view of the settlement, the outcome of the various pieces of litigation, and on the wishes of the FDIC, according to legal analyst David Heilberg,
"In a situation this complex," Heilberg notes, "a lot of dominoes have to line up."
Heilberg notes that besides the hotel shell and the property on which it stands, the only other big asset Minor's bankrupt company appears to hold is the $6.6 million arbitration award recently won from Danielson.
"Right now, that's a piece of paper," says Heilberg. "You have to collect on that."
Already, there is a luxury hotel on the hotel in the form of the $229-per-night Omni, and Heilberg figures the Omni won't get any high-end competition anytime soon.
"Someone could come in and buy it out of bankruptcy, but it could take several years," says Heilberg. "I think the real problem is the economy."
As this issue was going to press, a filing reminds the Hook of yet another lawsuit involving Minor, an attempted foreclosure action by Clancy & Theys Construction Company, the firm that built the Landmark shell. Minor has petitioned the bankruptcy court to move that creditor action–- along with Minor's $7 million counter-claim–- into his bankruptcy case. The court has set December 20 for a hearing at the federal courthouse in Charlottesville.
–updated 4:47pm on Friday, September 3 with the info after the first asterisks
–updated 11:02am on Tuesday, September 7 with info after the second asterisks
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no question---it is either the bank or Minor-----if the bank ends up owning it (and we will know in the next four months) then they will sell it to someone who can complete it. If Minor ends up with it he will HAVE to sell it off to someone who can complete it. No mystery here. According to various contractors it will take nine months to complete so 24 months seems pretty reasonable.....
cvllelaw- I only read the first sentence and scanned the rest. Give it up please. Keswick Hall has plans to double their number of hotel rooms. They actually do a heck of a lot of business at the hotel. The value of private golf courses is typically in the lots that surrouned them and that's why their rounds are under 10k per year. Also remember who their parent company is.
Cvillelaw---you have not the foggiest notion of what you are talking about....perhaps law is your deal....stick to it....you know not what you talk about...
@WhatHare: "Also, there is no question who gets building and that it will be finished within the next 24 months. "
That's ridiculous. There are questions on both the ownership and the timetable.
Cvllelaw, if the developer can get paid and get out early, he doesn't care whether it is viable. Same goes for the people arranging the loans in Atlanta. It would be hard to call them "bankers" in this scenario, more like deal makers. In that scenario, Danielson & the bank are not sincere, and Minor is the deep pockets they tried to tap, by stopping the loan and asking him to put in more.
In the opposite scenario, the bank & Danielson acted in good faith, Minor stopped payments, and he is either incompetent, etc., or saw the bank would soon fail.
I suggested earlier this would go to receivership (like bankruptcy), based on the very similar Milwaukee story of a mid-sized hotel project on that city's Water Street. If the Hook ever does a deep story, which is hard when the wackiness is more tempting to write about, I think the role of the bank will be key. But it may be too difficult to ever uncover. I would like to know what went on down in Atlanta, and where the Silverton / Specialty Finance Group officials ended up in their careers. The reason for my interest is that in the Milwaukee case the very same SFG was accused if colluding with one developer partner to defraud the other partner.
With a better economy, none of it would happen. But when the money runs out, parties stop paying and start demanding somebody else pay, at least in our type of finance-based 21st century economy. Apparently what we call banks even do this, if the accusations are right. I can just picture those guys down in an office in ATL trying to keep the game going one more week.
Despite all this, I'm still 50-50 on which scenario I think is more likely.
cvilelaw- Obviously you have not stayed in a decent hotel room recently nor are you familar with hotels as income producing properties. Nationally, the luxury hotel market has an average daily rate of about $230 per night with about 62% occupancy. The landmark was certainly never planned to be average. When this hotel was planned national average daily rates were around $290 with an occupancy of 71% for luxury hotels.
Boars Head was pulling in around $200 per night and Keswick was much much higher. South Street Inn pulls in $200+ per night.
The comparison of Keswick is not terribly encouraging; I understand that they have a LOT of financial troubles out there. Of course, it's a little hard to sort through how much of that is the hotel operation and how much of it is their ill-fated development operation.
No, I know that the average "high-end" room is going for more than $79 a night. The Omni is renting rooms at $200 and up (though trying to glean the average room rate from publicly available information is darn near impossible). My guess is that with corporate discounts and package deals, etc., their average room rate is somewhere in the neighborhood of $170. If there were another 100 top-shelf rooms available 3 blocks away, I'd guess that that number would be soft -- if they had to drop prices by 10% to keep occupancy rates up, we're down to $153. If we assume that the Landmark Hotel would have a typical occupancy rate -- and the average occupancy rate and the luxury occupancy rate are within a percentage point of each other -- then REVPAR comes in at rises to $94.86 a room (62% of $153). And that works out to about $33,600 per room per year. With $15,000 in amortization per room annually, that would be tough. On a national basis, labor accounts for about 45% of costs in the hotel industry. If that percentage were to hold, that's $15,000 of labor costs per room per year. Plus advertising, utilities, laundry, towels, soap, and who knows what all else. With labor and capital costs at 90% of revenue, you'll lose a lot of money every year.
Anyway, the only way that someone is going to make money on this deal is to be the guy who buys it from the fool who finishes it and then has to sell it in bankruptcy. If someone finishes it, loses his or her shirt, and then sells it for 50 cents on the dollar, the person who buys it may be able to turn a profit with half of the capital costs.
Great article Hawes, what a prick old Halsey is, just a sore loser. Go get em, tell him to take a little of that cash he has lying around and finish the hotel himeself....
I bet it won't!
The city will convince the taxpayers how using their tax dollars to finish the hotel will save the downtown mall once again and bring thousands of visitors to the city spending money.
It should be called The Radisson-Omni Annex when this happens! :)
I never understood how Danielson and Minor could have thought that it would be viable. Charlottesville has a great need for hotel rooms on weekends in the fall and spring -- perhaps 50 nights a year. Once you get beyond those 50 nights, occupancy rates drop precipitously. If I am remembering the numbers correctly, they were talking about a $15 million project, and about 100 rooms. That works out to $150,000 a room. Assuming you are amortizing that cost over, say, 10 years, that's $15,000 a room per year for just capital -- no interest. Assuming an occupancy rate of 61% (the industry average at the moment), that means that's $70 per night of occupancy, just for the building -- no staff or operating costs included. To use a statistic that hotel industry analysts use -- revenue per available room --
At the moment, the hotel industry is coming out of a bad slump, and is nowhere near the numbers necessary to sustain this project. According to a June Zack's analyst report, occupancy rates have risen to 61.3%. The average daily rate was up to $97.21. As a result, revenue per available room rose to $59.56. If the hotel performed on an average basis, it would lose money hand over fist.
If i remember correctly, it was going to be a mixed use building. The majority was going to be a hotel, but also high end condos, commercial and retail.
Watch him try and buy it for pennies on the dollar at auction. Hope somebody else out bids him. And just to beat him to the punch- no GSOE- the city isn't going to pay to have it finished!
What's scrap worth these days? I'll bid a $1 right now.
St. Halsey, the fat lady hasn't sung yet. :)
If I can jump back in here...
C'Villelaw is, I think, in the ballpark on his numbers. However, there is no way they could get that built and furnished for $15 mil., hence the initial lawsuit. And you can't really compare it to Boar's Head and Keswick, because they make a lot of money from the non-room revenue, something a resort-style destination has over a city hotel with limited function space, and restaurant alternatives right next door.If someone buys it for a buck, maybe they can make a go of it. Maybe.
Well, what you are talking about is what has become norm for so much of the business culture. Banks don't want to be regulated and manage risk, MBAs don't want to actually have to develop a plan. Don't research a market, don't understand the neighborhood you are establishing yourself in, nothing like that.
Nope. It's all just bad customers, the government, the residents, the employees. It's never the fault of those actually running the operation that should ever be responsible, even if they expect to be the ones reaping all the returns.
I'd like to think the City and some local business folks have learned something by this, but I doubt it. Posting on this forum and our political culture tells me the lesson hasn't been learned yet.
Hit the "submit" button too quick... The last sentence of the first paragraph of my comment above should be "To use a statistic that hotel industry analysts use -- revenue per available room (REVPAR) -- REVPAR would have to be about $40 just to cover the amortization. And you haven't even gotten to the biggest cost of operating a hotel -- labor." Unless REVPAR could be up over $100 -- which would require a HUGE change in the economy and the market -- this hotel will lose money in a big way.
It's likely to be demolished, due to its degraded condition. The question is who pays and who gets the land.
concrete post-tension slab buildings can stand for a long, long time with out degrading. Also, there is no question who gets building and that it will be finished within the next 24 months. Halsey Minor will NOT be the one finishing it either. His finances are such a mess and his reputation is so bad that there isn't a lending institution in the world who would give him a nickel.
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"no questionââ?¬â?it is either the bank **OR** Minor" (emphasis mine)
Ok. So there is a question.
"if the bank ends up owning it (and we will know in the next four months) then they will sell it to someone who can complete it. If Minor ends up with it he will HAVE to sell it off to someone who can complete it. No mystery here. According to various contractors it will take nine months to complete so 24 months seems pretty reasonable"
What sort of buyers do you anticipate? Cash-rich or with some special access to credit? Looming behind all of this is the sort of discussion above: does the project make business sense? I'm not at all sure it does.
i would like to know why the city allowed this to begin without a performance bond? Several city employees were completely remiss in their job responsibilities if none was required. Why>???
What's next -
As I understand it, the ceilings are too low for class A office space or luxury condos. I guess they shouldn't have squeezed in that extra floor.
Shed the old debts, and start over? As what? Like everything else Danielson did, it was impossible for that building to make a profit. I think the City should buy the derelict shell, and finish the build-out as offices. A replacement for the unattractive '70s city office building. Move all the city employees under one roof. Then demolish the current ugly cheap cinder block City Hall, and turn all that into an end of the mall park. The newer city office building next to it can be revamped to move the Charlottesville Circuit and District courts under one roof. But then I also think it should rain lollipops.
I think Minor should just put a "FOR FREE" sign on the front of it and walk.


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Chilean Patagonia's Peaks, Up Close
AFTER four hours of strenuous hiking, we had only just reached the bottom of the Torres del Paine. You can see the three granite monoliths from seemingly a hundred miles away (and on just about every postcard of Patagonia), but the full magnitude of their facades was revealed only after the last turn on the mountainous trail. We sat down, panting, and looked across a glassy, marble-green lake at the summits, reaching more than 9,000 feet into the sky. Despite their size, being so near to them felt strangely intimate.
Patagonia, the roughly 490,000-square-mile area at the southern end of South America shared between Chile and Argentina, had been on my wish list for more than 20 years. Encompassing the southern reach of the Andes and stretching toward the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, it contains windswept countryside, spectacular glacial lakes and mountain ranges. I had first learned of it through Bruce Chatwin's "In Patagonia" (1977) in high school. His description of the "rags of silver cloud spinning across the sky, and the sea of grey-green thornscrub lying off in sweeps and rising in terraces and the white dust streaming off the salt pans" drew me both to the place and in no small way to the profession of travel writing itself.
Then recently, the news that Chile was trying to put together one of the most impressive and far-reaching networks of private and public parks in the world made it even more appealing. And last year two luxury resorts opened on the Chilean side of Patagonia, something that hadn't happened in a decade. I knew the time had come.
Patagonia is at the end of the earth, and it feels like it — especially with a 2-year-old in tow. First, we took an overnight flight from Houston to Santiago. Then there's a four-hour flight to Punta Arenas (unless you can splurge on a private plane to Puerto Natales), and then a four-hour drive into Torres del Paine National Park until you get to the start of the trails.
But the length of the journey actually felt romantic. Along the flat, straight road from Punta Arenas we would go an hour without seeing anything but sheep up to their bellies in yellow grass, or maybe a lone farmhouse or a single gaucho followed by a pack of dogs.
Since Bruce Chatwin's days, the world has gotten much smaller and more familiar, and yet Patagonia retains an anachronistic feeling of being truly far away.
Of course, development has crept in, and the impact of more visitors than ever before is evident, especially on the more popular trails. It was in this park, just over a year ago, that a hiker started a devastating wildfire that burned at least 27,000 acres of parkland. When we got there in early February, the park had reopened, albeit with miles and miles of blackened scars.
We didn't go immediately to the park. Our first stop was the Singular Patagonia hotel, about an hour from the park's entrance, in a former meatpacking plant dating from 1915. The building sits next to the town of Puerto Natales, and floor-to-ceiling windows look out onto the Fjord of Last Hope. A 10-year restoration project brought free-standing tubs and king-size beds to a building that still feels somewhat stark, with long corridors that wind past massive iron relics of the industrial age. Adding to the feeling of end-of-the-worldness, a near-constant wind seems to whistle through the rooms as waves crash along a wooden dock.
The pioneer settlers who came here with their flocks in the late 19th century faced winters that would cut them off from the rest of the world for months at a time, and even now, despite heated floors and excellent food, the weather still rules. A birder had been blown off his feet that morning (luckily he wasn't hurt), and the high waves had prevented boats from taking tour groups to see the glacier. So we chose a horseback ride, a bracing and exhilarating expedition along the hills next to Lake Sofia, where the clouds seemed to chase the sun across the sky.
CLOSER to the park entrance itself, the new Tierra Patagonia is one of the most architecturally inspiring and beautifully positioned resorts I have seen. The long, slender structure hugs the plain like a huge wing of timber and soaring glass. Beyond it, Lake Sarmiento shimmers in the distance with the looming Torres del Paine behind.
The lodge was designed so that all the windows look out onto an ever-changing vista; the light, cloud cover and hues of the land appear different at every moment. Through a great expanse of glass, the sun bathes the interior in natural light. At night a large fire roars in a fireplace at the center of the open public area. Sheepskin rugs and rugged armchairs give the place a slightly gaucho feel, and a huge map with drawings of fjords and animals provides a reference guide to the next day's activities.
One of the excursions we decided on was not negotiable: the climb to the base of Torres del Paine. We left our son with one of the friendly staff members (though seeing a woman practically sprint up the same trail with her own 2-year-old strapped to her front would later make me feel like a lightweight). Then we set out with Felipe, our local guide, along with two handsome brothers from Texas.
On the drive to the hike's starting point, I thought that if New Zealand hadn't been the setting for "The Lord of the Rings" movies, this would have been a natural pick. The grazing areas were filled with herds of guanaco (llama-like creatures), raging waterfalls cascaded from cliffs and mountain ranges rose in the distance.
Our little group made its way upward through the different microclimates. Mostly we were silent, concentrating on our steps, but occasionally we would chat. The fire was on Felipe's mind. The fact that the hiker had not followed park rules seemed to irk him most. Invaluable real estate had been blackened and charred, and although growth will return, the fire's effects will continue for decades.
After the daylong hike, from Tierra Patagonia's indoor pool I watched the sun set behind the three peaks that we had just seen up close. Rarely have I been in a place where nature seemed so unspoiled. Despite the recent fire, I still felt that there were few places on the planet so truly pristine.
It is a good idea to contact an outfitter to plan your stay and handle transfers in Patagonia. And since plane arrivals and excursions into the park are often dependent on the weather, it helps to have someone who can assist with any unforeseen circumstances. Cazenove + Loyd offers trips to the area and can recommend excursions in advance depending on your activity level and interests (cazloyd.com; from $780 a person per day, including full board, excursions, transfers and park fees).
December to March are summer months in Patagonia and high season; the winter brings even more temperamental weather but fewer hikers on the trails.
Rates for the hotels seem high at first, but once broken down by room, food, excursions and transfers, they aren't unreasonable, especially considering the experience. Just outside Puerto Natales, the Singular Patagonia hotel is an hour and a half from Torres del Paine National Park, but affords access to nearby fjords and glaciers, as well as to the Mylodon Cave (the home of the prehistoric mammal that inspired Bruce Chatwin's trip here). Rates for the full-board option (there are half-board and bed-and-breakfast options too) start at $610 a person and include all meals at the excellent restaurant, expeditions and soft and alcoholic drinks (thesingular.com; 56-61-722-030).
Right outside the national park, the Tierra Patagonia is beautifully situated and designed, and has a wonderful spa (tierrapatagonia.com; 56-2-2370-5301); a three-night stay (minimum) starts at $1,950 a person sharing a double room. The restaurant, however, still needs some work to get it to the level of the Singular or Explora nearby.
Opened in 1993, the Explora Salto Chico is still the standard-bearer for the region. Situated in the heart of the park on the banks of a waterfall facing the mountain range, the property's accommodations and excellent restaurant are intact despite some damage to the immediate surroundings by the recent fire. The property's guides have also worked hard to find new trails to augment any damaged in the fire (explora.com; 56-2-2395-2800); a four-night stay (minimum) starts at $2,780 per person for a double room, including full board and excursions with guides.
Chile is quickly becoming a showcase for its mix of public and private parks. Here are a few to include on a visit.
Torres del Paine: With an impressive mountain range as its centerpiece, this national park covering roughly 1,000 square miles includes glaciers and fjords and is home to countless birds and the elusive puma.
Parque Pumalin: 740,000 acres of land with a variety of ecosystems.
Chiloé: On the western coast of the island of the same name, this temperate national park features rain forest, beaches and endemic wildlife and fauna. A smaller private park within the island, Parque Tantauco has blue whales off its shores, Darwin's fox and a network of gorgeous glacial deposited lakes.
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Subject description: Pizzapup + Qemu
One person contacted me about supplying additional instructions on how to make Pizzapup work like Qemu Pup which is Erik Veenstra's project. Since no one seems interested, I'll wait until more interest develops.
I also noticed some people are using VM Ware virtual machine to run the .iso. Experience says, "No way!" If you want to run any .iso, simply use VirtualBox by Innotek. Even the MS Virtual Machine (a freebie) will work. VM Ware is notoriously slow for my tastes and totally unpredictable. The problem with both is persistence--the ability to shut down the Virutal Machine and save the changes. It may be possible; however, I doubt it because both require registry entries to be installed on the host machine. Erik is absolutely correct when he says the goal is to leave the host machine uninfected--no trace, no anything.
So . . . read Erik's information, run over to pendrivelinux, and trust Pizzapup. Everthing is possible. Some editing will be required, but once a user gets Pizzapup running w/ Qemu and the option of installing KQemu, the results are just short of miraculous. Stream music from Mediamax.com which has a default plugin for Firefox. It's gold. If Mr. Murga will allow it, I shall post whatever information or even the files I currently have that will work on any flash wherever needed.
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Hi Jas,
I would also like to have a description of how you set up Pizzapup on a USB stick with a VM. I have puppy installed on a 256 memory stick, but have found too many pc refusing to boot so I would like to try your setup. I could always carry a wakepup disc or multisession CD, but I like to keep things simple and at hand. My USB stick is always with me.
Hope this helps to persuade you to share
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Hi jasray,
Funny you should mention VirtualBox............I'm currently looking into implementing a VirtualBox "server OS" and came across two choices for a barebones installation of the host OS with X: Puppy and RIPLinux.........
The idea is to run a minimal host OS for running virtual instances of my currently installed OSes, to allow me to easily switch between them when the need arises..........Lately, I've been having to reboot into Windows quite a bit, and am looking for a way to simplify matters..........
I haven't tried VirtualBox yet, but after looking it over at their website, I can't wait to get it up and running...............I've used QEMU, but it can be a bit flaky at times, and the free version of VB seems to have a few more options available than QEMU......
And I, too, would like some info on your current setup.............I tried setting up QEMU using Erik's files, but I couldn't get it to find the USB drive, but I just installed Pizzapup and am playing around with it and will try putting it on my pen drive.........Then I'll install VB and see how it goes.........
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Does virtual box work in puppy?
It should be able to.....Puppy is a Linux install, and VirtualBox works in Linux.......After installing, it will be saved in the pup-save file for the next reboot, unless you remaster Puppy to include VirtualBox........
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I'm interested in pizzapup for qemu with usb boot. please post an instruction set> thank you!
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I'm VERY INTERESTED. I have the interest of 10 people, maybe 11. Please tell us more of this miracle, oh wise one.
Really, much of my hair is pulled out laying on the ground around my seat. I think some of my sanity fell down there with it. Why can't I get QemuPuppy working?!?! Yep, I read all the documentation, several times over now, did everything exactly right many times, then tried everything wrong many times to see if that would work. All I have to show for it is the same error: "Cannot find puppy on '_____' boot media...". Regular Puppy boots fine from the usb pendrive, but QemuPuppy only boots in qemu mode. Yes, I ran syslinux. Yes I edited the living ____ out of the syslinux.cfg. What else can I do but give up??? If you can write up an instruction set like this, it might give me something else to try to get some form of this thing to work. I see no alternatives out there. It's this or nothing, and it's looking like NOTHING for me.
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I finally got QemuPuppy working! Here's how.
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QemuPizzaPup is a work of genius, Jasray (as is Puppy, as is QemuPuppy, as is PizzaPup) . I don't know if you're looking for publicity, so I'll leave it at that for now. Thanks.
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As cool as QemuPizzaPup is, I wonder if I can ever find a way to do what I'm really wanting to do: Have a bootable, portable, QEMU-able, persistent, Puppy (or other) Linux that has sound and networking in Windows. QemuPizzapup is great for booting Puppy in WIndows and it has the advantage over Qemu-Puppy of having full sound in windows, but Qemu-Puppy has the advantage over QemuPizzapup of being bootable at the hardware level for serious Linux computing/3D capability/performance. I can't choose between these features because I need them all: bootable from hardware, will run beside windows, will keep my settings (even if I have to change X-modes and network settings), and has multimedia in Windows. Bootable in qemu-mode in Linux would be a nice extra, but I don't personally need that. Is there a way in existence today to do that?
Or, alternatively, has ANYONE gotten sound in Qemu-Puppy's emulated mode working in WIndows? My Qemu-Puppy is silent. I've even tried "-soundhw es1370" and "-soundhw all" in my batch file for it.
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I am writing from the latest Puppy in a VirtualBox under Win2k. I installed to the virtual drive using the excellent tools, installed the devx files into the / folder, mounted the additions iso on the cdrom via the VB menu, ran the installer and got the complaint that it's internal command runlevel.sh couldn't find any run levels.
I find that Puppy doesn't use runlevels. I need the additions to be able to mount a shared folder, so I can use Puppy on this low RAM/space P3 as it is very fast and to save my files to the host.
How can I emulate runlevels to satisfy the VB additions installer?
PS Running Puppy like this is a good way of avoiding Internetted Windows malware.
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Four of the top 10 cities with the most expensive rental accommodations for foreign expats are in Asia, an increasingly popular expat location, according to a new report.
Asia is becoming increasingly popular with expats from Europe and the United States with many major firms setting up offices in Hong Kong, China, Japan and India, but they are paying more for a place to stay.
New data from ECA International, a global consulting firm that provides housing data from 180 of the most common locations across the world for international assignees, shows that Hong Kong is the most expensive place to rent accommodation.
Tokyo, Singapore and Shanghai also rank in the top 10 most expensive rental markets at number six, seven and nine, respectively. Moscow, Caracas, Venezuela, New York and London, as well as Bogota and Lagos also had top rents. Karachi in Pakistan had the lowest rents recorded by ECA.
Across Asia, the average monthly rental price for a three bedroom property is $3,600, above the global average of $3,000, according to the ECA which made the calculation using data from September 2013.
In Hong Kong an unfurnished three bedroom apartment in an area of the territory popular with business expats averages $11,440 per month. The average rent for a similar apartment in New York City, for example, costs $9,200 per month.
The report says that rental prices in Tokyo have increased by 6% since September 2012, as confidence returned to the housing market alongside a turnaround in the economy. However, a weaker yen has meant that the rental cost fell by about 15% when converted into US dollars. Ongoing demand in Singapore for high end properties resulted in a 4% rise in rental prices during 2013.
China is a mixed bag, according to the data. Rental prices have stayed fairly even, and high, since 2012 in Shanghai and Beijing, with neither city seeing rises greater than 3%. But demand for expat housing in the cities of Shenzhen and Suzhou have seen rents rise by 9% since 2012.
The largest increase in rent during 2013, a rise of 50%, was in Caracas due to the country's rampant inflation that is keeping the cost of building materials high and stagnating much needed construction. However, the Venezuelan currency's depreciation means that the increase is not substantial when converted into US dollars.
Economic prosperity and increasing numbers of business expats relocating to Dubai have resulted in a 32% rise in rents and rents increased by 29% in Sao Paulo due to the increasing presence of international businesses and property construction and renovation ahead of the 2014 World Cup.
The most pronounced rental price drops were in Dakar, Senegal, a fall of 18% in 2013 and large decreases were also observed in Barcelona and Madrid, at 11% and 7%, respectively.
The impact of currency fluctuations should not be underestimated when assembling accommodation packages for assignees, according to ECA accommodation services manager Alec Smith. 'Depending on how companies provide housing or allowances to their expats, major currency movements can have a big impact on costs,' he said.
For example, rents in the South African cities of Johannesburg, Cape Town and Pretoria increased by between 4% and 8% in local currency terms. However, all have dropped in ECA's global ranking when prices are converted into US dollars for comparison, because the South African rand weakened against major currencies during 2013.
Still another example is Sydney, the most expensive location for rental accommodation in Australia. Rents for a three bedroom apartment there have gone up around 3% since 2012 but when converted into US dollars for comparison, rental prices actually dropped by 10%.


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The first part of The High Magic of Talismans and Amulets goes into the traditions related to amulets and the natural magic thereof, and also examines the tension between established Christianity and the long-standing tradition of magick, especially of the apotropaic (evil averting) sort. One is strongly reminded of the generations of priestly execrations of goddess worship in the Bible, which similarly told us how long the practices persisted, and some details of them which we would not otherwise have had.
The priests inveighing against these charms were particularly intent on discouraging the use of magical characters (alphabetic or sigilic writing that conveys spiritual power). They sometimes waxed poetic: "The demon slithers in the characters like the serpent beneath the flowers." This ties nicely into his statement that "the unknown always inspires the Church with fear."
Lecouteux summarizes part of this history thus: "Implicit in the background are notions of natural, licit magic and illicit black magic," ((p. 30)) after giving one of many examples of a churchman condemning the talismanic art as being an implicit pact with a demon, a pattern which, as he points out, is "commonly repeated throughout the sixteenth century." What this means to me is that the Faustian current which arose in early modern magick didn't just appear without help. Apparently, it is as possible to call an egregore into being by constant execration as by constant evocation!


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